Published date: 18 September 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 20 October 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Technical computer support services - 72611000

Location of contract

North East

Value of contract

£10,000,000

Procurement reference

NCL001-DN298886-40200832

Published date

18 September 2017

Closing date

20 October 2017

Contract start date

1 January 2018

Contract end date

31 December 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The University implemented SAP as its main corporate management information system in 1999 and hasexpanded the SAP landscape over the past 18 years. The University's SAP environment is extremely wide-ranging and complex and regularly upgraded. The underlying database was migrated from Oracle to HANA in2016. The core systems include:
1. Financials, Logistics, HR, Payroll, Student Lifecycle Management (all ECC 6.0 EHP 8);
2. RM (7.0 EHP 4);
3. Portal (Netweaver 7.5);
4. PI (Netweaver 7.5);
5. SRM (7.0 EHP 4);
6. Business Warehouse (Netweaver 7.5);
7. HANA 1.0 SP12;
8. Identity Management (Netweaver 7.5);
9. LAMA (Netweaver 7.5);
10. ILM (Netweaver 7.5);
11. SAP Gateway (Netweaver 7.5);
12. Solution Manager (7.2).

There are 3 elements to this scope:
a) Provision via the VAR of SAP Standard support for the full scope of the current SAP products and licences purchased by Newcastle University.
b) The on-going maintenance of the mandatory student reporting requirements, including HESA/HESES functionality to ensure the University meets its obligations. This includes the implementation of annual mandatory updates and logic revisions in line with changes in UK HE.
c) The supply of new and additional SAP licenses as and when required by the University. It is envisaged that this may include Success Factors over the lifetime of this contract.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Neil Addison

Address

Newcastle University
King's Gate
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
England

Telephone

+44 1912087472

Email

neil.addison@ncl.ac.uk

Website

https://www.ncl.ac.uk